-It may be added that the general feeling in America
is that the . volume is notable for its painstaking fairness. Americans to-day—largely as a result of Miss Mayo's book—take as much interest in India as they formerly took in Ireland. The Baltimore Sun, a very progressively minded paper. says :— .
" Not only does Great Britain in this Cpmmission confront the situation grayely, as she might do through inere'xieoessity. She Approaches it with magnificent intelligence: It- ie impossible to feel after-the first half of the Report that less than a brilliant,.
sincere effort is being made 'to bring satisfactory order out of almost maddening complications."
The New York Times says that the Commission has obviously tried " to rid itself of English presumptions and penetrate beneath a strange alien surface to a real understanding of the character and aspirations of the native population."
All the papers are careful to point out that the real test will be the recommendations in Volume II. Meanwhile those Englishmen who remember the common form of American criticism of Great Britain's relations with Ireland will observe gratefully the new note. We are credited in advance with a sincere purpose. It is assumed that we shall not repeat the old mistake of that grudging slowness which turns out in the end by no means to have reduced the difficulties that in their first and smaller shape provided the motive for caution.
